You might remember, back in October, that after my troubles with the latest Ubuntu upgrade and my Lenovo Ideapad, as an experiment I installed Lubuntu on the old Dell Latitude E5250 that I'd bought J as a stopgap machine when her old machine carked it at the start of the pandemic.
As an experiment it was pretty successful, and it's lack of external dependencies - no cloud storage for one - made a useful machine, so useful in fact that I've found myself using it for some family history stuff, especially where I don't necessarily have access to good fast internet.
Despite the machine being being nine or so years old the machine's pretty responsive, and the keyboard is nice to type on and the screen is nice and bright.
And certainly Lubuntu does not stress the machine - it really is light and fast, and gets the most out of old hardware.
Lubuntu is however a community maintained distribution and as such updates can lag behind the main distribution, and as the machine seemed to be becoming a production machine, I thought I would move it over to standard Ubuntu before I had too much work on it.
So, I backed up my work to a USB stick, burned myself a bootable USB with the latest version of Ubuntu, and rebooted the machine.
I basically just followed the bouncing ball as regards the installation, reinstalled my extra software and copied back my data. Probably took a bit over an hour, but certainly less than two.
On first use the machine seems as capable under Ubuntu as it did under Lubuntu, but as with all these things only time will tell ...
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